Difficult to tell, really. Perhaps the issues the female fans face have changed over time, really.
I do distinctly recall feeling as a female Who fan in the north of England somewhat glad to read the humorous exploits of the fictitious "Jackie Jenkins" in DWM as the only other person in my situation (mind you, I was in a somewhat provincial college city where the only evidence of Whofandom was how quickly the DWMs disappeared from the newsstands; the local convention didn't arrive until I'd already left). Even at college I was one of at most three Who fans of the female persuasion in a male-dominated and somewhat macho Who-society. Now I'm in NY and the gender balance is far more fifty-fifty, but again it's a different sort of group: "for the lulz" rather than a Wilderness Years "keeping the light of true Who alive" priesthood of pre-'05, to whom the ancillary exploits of female fen might be seen as a betrayal of "the one true". Then again, K/S fandom really blossomed during the wilderness years of ST TOS, so what do I know?
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Date: 2008-10-21 07:35 pm (UTC)I do distinctly recall feeling as a female Who fan in the north of England somewhat glad to read the humorous exploits of the fictitious "Jackie Jenkins" in DWM as the only other person in my situation (mind you, I was in a somewhat provincial college city where the only evidence of Whofandom was how quickly the DWMs disappeared from the newsstands; the local convention didn't arrive until I'd already left). Even at college I was one of at most three Who fans of the female persuasion in a male-dominated and somewhat macho Who-society. Now I'm in NY and the gender balance is far more fifty-fifty, but again it's a different sort of group: "for the lulz" rather than a Wilderness Years "keeping the light of true Who alive" priesthood of pre-'05, to whom the ancillary exploits of female fen might be seen as a betrayal of "the one true". Then again, K/S fandom really blossomed during the wilderness years of ST TOS, so what do I know?